Transcript Libraries and networks: the new cooperative context Lorcan Dempsey University of Illinois, Springfield 30 March 2005

Libraries and networks:
the new cooperative context
Lorcan Dempsey
University of Illinois,
Springfield
30 March 2005
Overview
3 ages
1. Resource sharing and cataloging
2. A&I and e-journals
3. Consolidation around network
platforms ..
Some context
for a beginning
Robin Murray
Library service
landscape
URL is the currency of the web
The library and the library network
Systemwide
efficiences
Cat/Resource sharing
Journal lit
Impact
The long tail
Systemwide
efficiences
Aggregation of supply
•Unified discovery
•Low transaction costs
Aggregation of demand
Impact?
Synthesize-specialize-mobilize
Libraries and the long tail dynamic
Each reader
his/her book
Each book
its reader
Aggregate supply?
Aggregate demand?
 1.7% of circulations
are ILLs
 (60% of aggregate
G5 collection owned
by one library only)
 20% of collection
accounted for 90% of
use
 (2 research libraries
over ~4 years)
Collaboratively sourced approaches
Libraries Australia
CRL
Ithaka
OCLC
RLG
DEF
OhioLink
California digital library
JISC
Pines
Google Scholar
At what level?
Collections
Discovery to
delivery
Space and Consumer
environments
Space and
Consumer
environments
OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon
Self assembled digital identity
Prefabricated (e.g. CMS)
Database > website > workflow
Gather – create - share
Raymond Yee
URL is the currency
Conversation and evidence
Mobilize the edge of user contribution
Mobilize resources in user spaces
Integrity and authenticity
Versioning
Citing
pentags
Collections
stewardship
high
Books
Journals
low
high
Special
collections
Freely-accessible
web resources
uniqueness
uniqueness
Newspapers
Gov. docs
CD, DVD
Maps
Scores
low
Rare books
Local/Historical
newspapers
Local history materials
Archives & Manuscripts,
Theses & dissertations
Open source software
Newsgroup archives
Research and learning
materials
•ePrints/tech reports
•Learning objects
•Courseware
•E-portfolios
•Research data
Print books
 Preservation turn: Cost of management and
preservation of print collection?
 Mass digitisation: converting sharable
materials to licensable materials?
 Mass digitization and off-site storage present
similar issues: selection and shared capacity
move to network level?
Licensed resources
 Libraries have selected from a published
resource: scholarly record.
 A global knowledge base?
 Complete digital and print runs – at what
level?
 Growing interest in audio
 Gather, create, share?
Digitized special collections
 Relevance to local research and learning
needs? Primary materials.
 Specialise: support the curriculum/research needs
 Mobilize: integration with learning materials
 Aggregation and higher level services … at
what level?
Exhibition at Wesleyan:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/exhibit/Teaching/Pedagogy/home.htm
Web
 Harvest and curate
 Integrity: Versioning and citation
 State/government docs/websites
Institutional research and learning outputs
 Differently motivated (coordinated asset
management, scholarly communications,
reputation management, disclosure,
preservation, ..)
 Domain specialties (high acronymic density)
 Diversity: big data, e-portfolios, learning
materials, …
 Special collections of the future?
Some
questions about
collections
Structures, budgets,
skills, routine
systems ….…
are organized around
the ‘upper left’.
At what level?
Creation,
organization and
curation
Discovery to
delivery
Example: aggregate supply:
transaction costs
Discover
Locate
Request
Each arrow is a potential added cost:
In terms of attention or technical,
policy, business or service gaps.
Amazon? Google?
Deliver
Use
Synthesise discovery
 Metasearch
 Consolidation?
Specialize discovery?
Synthesize location
 Service router = resolution
Challenges: find it?
Request:
 Service router
 Place hold
 Place ILL request
 Initiate purchase
request, ….
Deliver:
 From multiple
sources
 Shared physical
and digital
collections?
Locked within end to end systems where the
ends are in the wrong places!
Competition for attention.
At what level:
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Insitutional (single, California Digital Library)
Regional/State (OhioLink, Pines)
National (JStor)
International (Google Scholar, worldcat)
Moving to the
network level
Trajectory: from vertical integration …
Multilevel approach to …
Collections
 Shared offsite storage
 Aggregate and analyse
digital collections
 Institutional repository
 Digital storage and
preservation
Social
 Social networking
services
D2D
 Consolidated discovery
 Service routing –
fulfilment
Business intelligence
 Synthesize and mobilize
shared usage data
… to collaboratively sourced
approaches
Libraries Australia
CRL
Ithaka
OCLC
RLG
DEF
OhioLink
California digital library
JISC
Google Scholar
Find the right level to …
Collectively strategise
Collectively specify
Collaboratively source
 Solutions
 Products
Synthesise-specialise-mobilize